Demi Moore expected Mikey Madison to win the Academy Award for lead actress, she recently told Time magazine. “I don’t know why I knew, but I did,” Moore said in the interview. “I was so centered and calm. I didn’t feel gutted. I didn’t feel any of those kinds of things. I just trusted, and am in trust of, whatever is going to unfold.”

Demi Moore can clearly remember the moment she realized she would lose the Best Actress Oscar to Mikey Madison. Moore, who led “ The Substance ,” lost to the “ Anora ” actress during the 2025 Oscars. In a new interview, Moore shared that she knew during the commercial break before the award was announced that she was not favored by the Academy.

Demi Moore photographed in Los Angeles on Mar. 21Adrienne Raquel for TIME This story is part of the 2025 TIME100. Read Ryan Murphy’s tribute to Demi Moore here. Here’s what you already know: at the 2025 Oscars,